Disability and the Tudors: All the King's Fools
Phillipa Vincent-Connolly
Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm
can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any
impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death
before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the
disabled amongst them?
For centuries, disabled people and their
history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the
infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period.
The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled
story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of
its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where
society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled.
Meet
characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the
king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries
contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor
England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of
society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of
disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social,
religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it
was then perceived.
can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any
impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death
before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the
disabled amongst them?
For centuries, disabled people and their
history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the
infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period.
The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled
story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of
its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where
society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled.
Meet
characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the
king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries
contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor
England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of
society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of
disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social,
religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it
was then perceived.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2021
প্রকাশক:
Pen & Sword History
ভাষা:
english
ISBN 10:
1526720051
ISBN 13:
9781526720054
ফাইল:
EPUB, 10.26 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2021
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